error message from an example on histogram

I am trying out an example in the MatLab documentations page:

https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/histogram.html

The problem is simple: Make a histogram from the specified numbers. The example shows an output for

x = randn(10000,1);
h = histogram(x)

but doesn't show an output in my Matlab. There is an error message "Undefined function 'histogram' for input arguments of type 'double'."

What's wrong? And how to correct this?

Answer 1

[Steven Lord]

The note at the end of that documentation page states "Introduced in R2014b". My guess is you are using an older release that predates the introduction of the histogram function.

[cgo]

So is there a way to use this without encountering the error?

[Steven Lord]

Use release R2014b or a later release.

If you must use a release prior to release R2014b, take a look at the hist function. It does not have the same functionality as histogram but it will show a plot of a histogram of your data.